Window-seat box



(No Modem W. H. WETHERILL.

WINDOW SEAT BOX.

No. 330,651 Patented Nov. 17, 1885. ilyz 24 .2

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WILLIAM HENRY WETHERILL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WINDOW-SEAT BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,651, dated November17, 1885,

Application filed August 2'2, 1885. Serial No. 175,065. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM H. WETH- ERILL,Of Philadelphia,in thecounty of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Window-Seat Boxes,of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in a new and useful combined seat and boxdesigned to be placed within a sitting or other room, against orimmediately under the window, and in which the device not only forms alidded box, in which articles of different kinds may be kept or stowedaway, and also forms a seat for the occupant or occupants of the room,but in which both the box or body part and lid are specially constructedto make'a double seat that may be occupied by two persons in differentsitting positions relative to each other and the window with facilityfortheir facing each other without twisting the body or straining anymember of it, substantialy as hereinafter shown and described. I

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a window-seat box embodying myinvention and as applied to or immediately under a window, the box beingrepresented as closed. Fig. 2 is a partly broken or sectional similarview showing the box with its lid thrown back or open; and Fig. 3 is aplan view of the device closed and showing its arrangement to thewindow-casing, which is represented in section. Fig. 4 is a similar viewto Fig. 3, showing the device as adapted to a window-casing of specialor different constru ction.

A is the body or box part of the device, and B its lid, which, in caseof the device being used on the inside of a window the casing 0 of whichis flush with the inside walls, as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or of a windowwhich sits within a square recess in the wall, may be hinged in its rearto the box part, as at b b. When the article, however, is designed to beused on the inside of a window the casing O of which or opening inthewall for the window has flaring upright sides 0 c, as shown in Fig. 4,then the lid B may either be a detachable one, capable of being liftedon and off, or a sliding one along transverse ways on the end portionsof the box part, the sides 0 c not admitting of a lid hinged in the rearthen being used; but whether the lid be an at tached or detachable one,or hinged or otherwise connected, is of no importance so far as theinvention is concerned, nor yet whether the ends (2 d of the box partand lid form an approximately right-angular junction with the back edgesof the box part and lid, as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or bend inward attheir junction with said back edges, as shown in Fig. 4, to adapt themto the peculiarl'y-shaped window-casing shown in Fig. 4; but in each andevery case the window-seat box is composed of a hollow lower body or boxpart, A, the front of which may be of pronounced undulating profile, ithaving a deep intermediate recess, h, down its front, thereby exposingsix distinct sides, 71 i, in advance of its straight back is, and of alid, B, of corresponding configuration on its front and side marginalportions, whereby the entire seat is made to form two independentsittings, on which two persons may sit either with their backs to thewindow or sidewise relatively thereto, so as to face each other withouttwisting the body or straining any member of it; or, when desired,sidewise, with their backs opposite one another,and so that in eachsidewise position relatively to the window the occupants of the twinseat may, if reading, receive the full benefit of the light from thewindow without obstruction by their persons. In this way the wholestructure not only forms a box or convenient repository for variousarticles, but a twin seat and vis-a-vis or tete-atete of an improved orsuperior description.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is V l. The within-described window-seat box,the same consisting of a hollow lower body or box part, A, having anintermediate recess, h, down its front, exposing six distinct sides,

i i, in advance of its back k, and of a lid, B, having an intermediaterecess, h, and adapted 10 of corresponding configuration on its frontand to accommodate two persons either with their side marginal ortions,the whole forming a I baclzs to the Window or in dilferentsidewisemany-sided twin window-box seat adapted posltlons relatively thereto andfacing each 5 to be used as a vis-a-vis seat when desired, 1 other,essentially as shown and described.

substantially as shown and described. v I WILLIAM HENRY WEIHERILL.

2. In a combined Window seat and box, th W'itnesses:

hollow body or box part A and its lid B con- O. H. WATSON, structed toform a vis-a-vis or twin seat, 9 g, A. RULoN FOSTER.

